Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-02-25
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Taxes have been coming in quite freely
of late.
Go to H. H. Days, Bismarck, for jew
elry, watches, repairing, etc.
Subscribe for the RECORD, pay in ad-
vance, and get the two farm papers free.
Oscar II. Wills Northwestern- grown
Seeds, Trees and Plants. Bismarck
| Greenhouse.
y Mr.. Rhude started for Bismarck last
Wednesday to procure load of goods
for the store.
1t is said that new railroad from Dun
| seth to Minnewaukan will be running
before next September.
r. L. Durant e. Co., wholesale and re-
| tail booksellers and stationers, wall paper
| and music dealers. Bismarck, Oak.
One day last week, through tho medium
of mirage, a reflection of trees in the cou.
lees several miles southeast of town was
| visible.
Only two of the Olsen cattle were dis
posed of at the advertised sale, Saturday.
Mr.. Wiley Wilson, of Buchanan, bought
| yoke of steers.
fWatertown has eight lines of railroad
now, says it will have five more before
| the leaves fall, and total of eighteen
before 1888 Closes
1.-The muscular exerLion wasted this win.
ter in snow-shoveling throughout EN-
| mons would, If SO directed, have graded
| a railroad across the county.
George Gussner, Central Block Market,
Bismarck, keeps the best assortment and
has the largest stock Of Fresh Meats and
Groceries in the city. Give him call.
PROF Kem says that his cellar has not
been necessity this winter the ground
floor Of his dwelling answering the pur.
pose. The snow is banked even with the
second story.
y People in the Armstrong neighborhood
are said to be anxious regarding the
whereabouts Of A. P. Rorick He is not
| at his house, and no one had heard that
he intended leaving home.
Mr.. John Flick, Hanson county
farmer, returned this week from year
and-a- a-half trip through Arizona and Cali
| tornla. He is another pilgrim who has
returned better pleased with his Dakota
possessions than ever.
FSome people say the big thaw will
drown all the gophers by filling their
holes with water. Not much. We'll bet
| the little pests have been constructing
iife-boats all winter. No ordinary calam-
ty can overthrow the gopher tribe.
r George, in his funny business anent the
Shook gopher bounty bill, says that if
the bill passes he will return to Emmons
county and catch gophers. We are glad
the young man has at length correctly
gauged his ability and discovered his
| forte.
Judge Cocnrane, of Grand Forks, re-
Gently received letter from "a Pennsyl-
vania man who says he has the names
and addresses Of over 2,400 persons who
are coming west somewhere this spring,
and offering to send them to real-estate
dealers for $40.
Rapid City Republican A New York
editor who was called to Kansas City on
business purchased a pair Of rattesnake
boots, a brace of revolvers and a repeat
ing rifle for buffalo shooting. He runs
an administration organ and knows as
much as his chief about the great West.
Mandun Pioneer The engineers on the
west end of the Missouri division state
that between Mingusvile and Glendive
there are at least $50 cattle under the
trcstles, most of them dead and some of
them on the verge of death. The track
crosses Beaver and Glendive creeks sew
eral times, and the cattle have got under
the bridges to secure some slight protec,
ton from the wind. They have strayed
there to die, as they can find nothing to
eat,
Tribune P. B. Groat, of St. Paul, i'm.
Emigration agent of the Northern Pacific
railroad, is in the city. He says that in.
,quiries regarding Dakota, its lands and
resources, have been made in much larger
numbers than last year, and he thinks g
much larger percentage of them thar
usual are from persons whose desire fo,
the knowledge is for genuine purpose
of settlement. He thinks it definitely
certain that colony from Vermont will
settle near Dickinson in few months
now. Other colonies are pretty sure tc
settle near jamestown and in Emmous
county.
| The N. P.'s Seed Grain.
BISMARCK, Feb. 15.-Mapy erroneou!
impressions have become prevalent
through tho press and otherwise, in rela
ton to the distribution Of seed grain b,
the Northern Pacific railroad company
Some people seem to think that the man.
agement of the road have just undergone
a violent spasm Of generosity, and ar.